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The TAILOR team at Baylor College of Medicine now has a YouTube channel! Check out their recent one, a recorded talk on AMR and phage therapy by one of TAILOR's founders, Dr. Anthony Maresso, called Chasing Change: A moving pandemic, an ada

Phage Futures 2021 will have a young researcher showcase at their event this coming February! If you're a young researcher attending the conference ($149 for students — register here), don't forget to apply to present a poster virtually by

US biotech company Felix Biotechnology announced the initiation of its first clinical trial, CYPHY, a phase 1/2 single center trial that will test its first targeted phage therapy candidate, YPT-01, against chronic P. aeruginosa infections

Pherecydes Pharma intends to list on the Euronext Growth® Market in Paris, a European equity trading market designed for small to medium-sized firms. Pherecydes Pharma has developed a portfolio of phages against Staphylococcus aureus, Pseud

David Lebeaux (Université de Paris) and colleagues published the first demonstration of phage therapy in a lung-transplanted cystic fibrosis patient infected with pandrug resistant A. xylosoxidans. They successfully carried out two rounds o

Repurposing CRISPR systems as antimicrobials is a new strategy being explored, and engineered phages could be a great way to carry them to their targets. Clément Fage (Université Laval, Canada) and colleagues published a new perspective in

Julie Stenberg Pedersen (University of Copenhagen, Denmark) and colleagues published a paper on the isolation and characterization of a novel phage Jarilo, which is active against the plant pathogen Pectobacterium carotovorum that causes so

The Africa Phage Forum is hosting its next phage webinar in its series, Feb 15 at 4pm GMT / 11am Eastern with special guest Dr. Evelien Adriaenssens, who will give a talk entitled Basics of phage genome annotation and classification - how t

The Africa Phage Forum is hosting its next phage webinar in its series, Feb 15 at 4pm GMT / 11am Eastern with special guest Dr. Evelien Adriaenssens, who will give a talk entitled Basics of phage genome annotation and classification - how t

The Africa Phage Forum is hosting its first webinar, with special guest Dr. Paul Turner, who will give a talk entitled 'From the environment to bedside: understanding the basics of phage therapy research'. Save the date for Jan. 14 at 11AM

In the lead up to the virtual Global Phage Futures Congress February 24-26 (register here), Dr Shawna McCallin, Clinical Coordinator, Balgirst University Hospital will provide a free webinar Jan 19 at 12:00 PM Eastern on establishing a data

The Phage Team Uganda comprising of scientists, researchers and students from various backgrounds, is coming together to contribute to world Phage community in discovering the Phage potential for a better world. Follow our work via @PhagesU

Kristen LeGault (University of California, Berkeley) and colleagues published a new preprint showing how temporal shifts in antibiotic resistance elements govern virus-pathogen conflicts in Vibrio cholerae recovered from clinical samples. T

Gerald Misol, Jr. (Hellenic Center for Marine Research, Greece) and colleagues characterized a novel jumbo phage with broad host range against Vibrio harveyi, a major aquaculture pathogen. They did a trial in shrimp, which showed that this

Anna Dragos (Technical University of Denmark) wrote a blog post for Nature Microbiology entitled 'Breaking bad of prophages during lab evolution - from strange observation to revelation'. She talks about how her group noted an intriguing pa

Check out the agenda for the 3rd Bacteriophage Therapy Summit - led by 25+ expert speakers from industry, academia and governmental bodies, this meeting will equip you with all the tools you need in order to accelerate the discovery and tra

The Africa Phage Forum formed by a group of passionate African phage researchers provides a collaborative network for the promotion and sensitization of phage research in Africa. The forum is on a quest to seek solutions to common challenge

The Center for Phage Technology (Texas A&M) has released its upgraded and improved Galaxy-Apollo phage annotation platform. This is a free, web-based, gold-standard system for phage annotation, and their website includes training materials

Great in-depth narrative article in The New Yorker magazine by Nicola Twilley, which details accounts of phage therapy patients treated recently in the US, as well as the behind-the-scenes work by scientists and doctors that goes into isola

Animals in the wild have learned to live with 'their' viruses, but humans are still learning. Harald Brussow (KU Leuven) has described in a new 'crystal ball' article how phages have dominated all natural habitats, and has provided a unique